A very wonderful matter it certainly is that the stone in which the whole history of the country-side is writ, not only in rolling downs and limestone streams, but even in church, tithe-barn, farm, and cottage, as well as in the walls and the roads and the very dust that blows upon them, should be nothing more nor less than a mass of dead animals that lived generation after generation, thousands of years ago, at the bottom of the sea.

Barns were a family weakness with them, as furniture had been with the Kinzers.

Our barns are now transferr'd to drawing-rooms, And husbands who indulge in active lives, To fill their granaries may thrash their wives.

" The Cobhurst barn was an unusual, and, indeed, a remarkable structure.

" The Cobhurst barn was an unusual, and, indeed, a remarkable structure.

Thy toil is blestthe world goes well with thee Our barns are fullour cattle, many a score; Our handsome team of well-fed horses, too, Brought from the mountain pastures safely home, To winter in their comfortable stalls.

Swallow Barn is an aristocratical old edifice, which sits, like a brooding hen, on the southern bank of the James River.

The old barn won't be any loss to speak of, anyhow.

The barns and corrals were familiar places to her, and she insisted upon petting every horse, in some instances to Jake's manifest concern.

The barn, specially mentioned in all the deeds, is a most unusual adjunct of so small a cottage.

I am, indeed, in some concern about a fund for building a thousand or two churches, wherein these probationers may read their wall lectures, and begin to doubt they must be contented with barns; which barns will be one great advancing step towards an accommodation with our true Protestant brethren, the Dissenters.

A barn, an outhouse, a garret, will be a palace to me, if it will but afford me a refuge from this man!